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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 1/2] aio: make kiocb->private NUll in init_sync_kiocb()
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 03:39:56PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:09:54 +0800
> Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> > Ocfs2 uses kiocb.*private as a flag of unsigned long size. In
> > commit a11f7e6 ocfs2: serialize unaligned aio, the unaligned
> > io flag is involved in it to serialize the unaligned aio. As
> > *private is not initialized in init_sync_kiocb() of do_sync_write(),
> > this unaligned io flag may be unexpectly set in an aligned dio.
> > And this will cause OCFS2_I(inode)->ip_unaligned_aio decreased
> > to -1 in ocfs2_dio_end_io(), thus the following unaligned dio
> > will hang forever at ocfs2_aiodio_wait() in ocfs2_file_aio_write().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
> > Acked-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
> > ---
> > include/linux/aio.h | 1 +
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/aio.h b/include/linux/aio.h
> > index 2314ad8..b1a520e 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/aio.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/aio.h
> > @@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ struct kiocb {
> > (x)->ki_dtor = NULL; \
> > (x)->ki_obj.tsk = tsk; \
> > (x)->ki_user_data = 0; \
> > + (x)->private = NULL; \
> > } while (0)
> >
> > #define AIO_RING_MAGIC 0xa10a10a1
>
> hm, that code is rather cruddy. Pointless macromania.

Agreed.

> If we do this:
>
> static inline void init_sync_kiocb(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct file *filp)
> {
> *kiocb = (struct kiocb) {
> .ki_users = 1,
> .ki_key = KIOCB_SYNC_KEY,
> .ki_filp = filp,
> .ki_obj.tsk = current,
> };
> }
>
> then fs/read_write.o's .text is shrunk from 9857 bytes to 9714, which
> is rather a lot.
>
> But that's all rather irrelevant to your bugfix.

I like your solution. Junxiao, if you send me that version, I'd
be happy to take it.

Joel

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